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u/daddybarkmeplsuwu 2d ago
Yeah no, socialist still acceptable, commies bombed railway tracks and killed civilians trying to a revolution in my country.
We still spit on the leader of the communist party here as he made a race to be the scapegoat for being communist sympathiser.
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u/Shadlezz07 2d ago
Who would believe people who fought for a thing to happen come out to celebrate said thing happening
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u/0WatcherintheWater0 1d ago
Communists actually weren’t all that involved in the efforts that resulted in May Day. They were posers, often taking credit for the efforts of often non-communist labor leaders to advance their own agenda - but very rarely actively involved.
Take Samuel Gompers for instance, the strongly anti-communist founder of the AFL. He was instrumental in pushing for the 8 hour workday and advancing the American labor movement broadly after public backlash against unions due to the Haymarket Bombings.
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u/DangersDen 1d ago edited 1d ago
Didn't Gompers and the AFL distance themselves from May Day because it had strong communist support? May Day was declared after the Haymarket affair as we know, which was organized by revolutionary socialists and anarchists such as Albert Parsons and August Spies. If you specifically mean communists as in Marxis-Leninists, sure, they weren't involved with the creation as that would be impossible given the timeframe, but the revolutionary socialists that are tied in with the holiday's creation and pretty explicitly anti-capitalists and wished to enact socialism via revolution, and that was when the word communist and socialist were used pretty interchangably. I think to say communists weren't involved in the efforts that led to may day is a bit ahistorical.
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u/Woolies_White_Leg 2d ago
Good news is there are plenty of “Anti-communists” on kick, Bo will be right at home!
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u/vision666 1d ago
this community has gone mask off at an alarming rate, or maybe I was delusional about the people I was watching because i enjoyed mappies
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u/LeMagnaCR 2d ago
1 month late?